I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
THERESE OF LISIEUXIf I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.
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True charity consists in putting up with all one’s neighbors fault’s; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.
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The science of loving, yes, that’s the only kind of science I want I’d barter away everything I possess to win it.
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A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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Look at His adorable face. Look at His glazed and sunken eyes. Look at His wounds. Look Jesus in the Face. There, you will see how He loves us.
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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases.
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What offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence…Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately…We have only the short moments of our life to love Jesus!
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I say nothing to him I love him.
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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
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